Abigail Adams Quotes
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind should we serve?
Abigail Adams, 1744-1818, Writer and First Lady (John Adams), Letter to John Thaxter, September 29, 1778
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There were few reformers who had such a long, extensive, and activist career in both England and India. She began her career as a minister’s wife but was literally turned out of her house by her husband for whom she was not religiously orthodox enough. This started her religious activism which ended with her as an atheist. She led a match-girl’s strike, founded a Hindu college in India, and was even arrested for pornography in England when she wrote a book advocating birth control. She is on many lists of “Great Indians” along with Gandhi and Nehru. She was Jiddu Krishnamurti’s teacher.
These Maxims would be useful for any political campaign staff or government agency.
This Sura is the motto of the British-based international relief organization, Islamic Relief.
Abigail Adams was the wife and closest advisor of John Adams, as well as the mother of John Quincy Adams. She is sometimes considered to have been a Founder of the United States, and is now designated as the first Second Lady and second First Lady of the United States, although these titles were not used at the time. She and Barbara Bush are the only two women to be married to one U.S. president and the mother of another.
